Yitzhak Shulman

Yitzhak Shulman was a Belarusian Jew who joined the Bielski Otriad during World War II.

Biography
Yitzhak Shulman was born in Baranowicze, Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a family of Jews. After Operation Barbarossa saw the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Shulman was forced to stay in Baranowicze with 9,000 other Jews, being forced to work in factories for the Axis Powers. Shulman escaped the Baranovichi Ghetto in 1942 and fled to Lipczanska Forest in Belarus, where he met the Bielski Otriad and asked for Tuvia Bielski to help him in rescuing some of the Jews from the ghetto, which was being liquidated. Bielski succeeded in rescuing several Jews from the ghetto, and the numbers of the Bielski refugees grew by the hundreds.